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Farquhar was born in Newhall, Aberdeenshire, near Aberdeen, in 1774 as the youngest child of Robert Farquhar and Agnes Morrison, his father's second wife. [1] His brother, Arthur, two years his senior, rose to the rank of rear admiral in the Royal Navy, and received a knighthood for his distinguished services during the Napoleonic Wars.
The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...
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1825 map of Singapore. The Fort Canning Hill area was bounded on its north by ruins of an old wall marked as Old Lines of Singapore and to the south by Singapore River. It is believed that the Fort Canning Hill area was once the centre of ancient Singapura that thrived in the 14th century, and was occupied by a palace with various buildings of political, religious and commercial significance. [2]
The visual art of Singapore, or Singaporean art, refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with Singapore throughout its history and towards the present-day. The history of Singaporean art includes the indigenous artistic traditions of the Malay Archipelago and the diverse visual practices of itinerant artists and migrants from China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe.
Term of office Origin Background or previous appointment Monarch Took office Left office Duration 1 Major-General William Farquhar (1774–1839) 6 February 1819 1 May 1823 4 years, 2 months Aberdeenshire, Scotland: Resident of Malacca, Chief Engineer George III. George IV. 2 Dr John Crawfurd (1783–1868) 27 May 1823 15 August 1826 3 years, 2 ...
Object history: 17 June 1826: Donated in eight volumes by William Farquhar to the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in London.. 1937: Six volumes lent by the Society to the Library of the British Museum (Natural History) (now the Library of the Natural History Museum); two volumes of botanical drawings retained in the Society's library.
Raffles came in after for sweeping changes, but Farquhar was operating on the most minimal of resources and set an example for the salutary neglect that Singapore was administered under for years to come. Karajanis 23:21, 20 April 2009 (UTC) Farquhar cannot have been born both near Aberdeen and in Perth.